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5/20/2013 4:00PM

Hezbollah, Syrian Rebels Fight Near Lebanon Border

Simon Constable and Nour Malas discuss the latest on clashes between Hezbollah and Syrian rebels, and Jerry Seib looks at how the controversies in Washington could affect the Obama Administration. Photo: AP.

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... the the ... ah ... the the ... as pointing in the Syrian civil war which is close to the Lebanese war that at least twenty three has called on militants reported killed ... and more than fifty wounded in clashes with rebels ... will have the latest in a live report from the region ... good afternoon and welcome new sub I'm Simon Constable ... with him on the finding of what it means that in Syria Wall Street Journal's no malice joins us now from Beirut Levanon ... which is relatively close to where the fighting is going on ... but no law ... to give us the latest on what's happened ... their record for the error by TV ... and are rated government pressure to retake ... it ... would shed a tear in the year before her reflected on a gravel path ... to the retreat he did for both the cover ... after Apple for Apple at ten a m ... I'm you or wet and and ... aam ... the government gets that from this very important ... happily ... enough ... aam interest in the country entered to ... an area of the call that aren't the ... only stronghold the ... Fed regime ... Financial is saying right now and we saw the top of the show the financing looks very very thin Simon is this month ... perhaps more important than the Damascus ... called buckles that we've seen ... I try to maintain that are coming we haven't seen in me we in America a push back ... several attempted ripple effect of the men up to the UK ... I'm a blogger told it launched a strike ... price of Apple and other provinces in the north which have been ... Wall had come for nearly a year ... but there have been vindicate ground battle for territory like a bit of ... time ... I'm a netbook showed how strategic or the ... little one is that it felt alert all of ... the military gave ... the government which feeling emboldened and empower ... and I met with the matter with all that is likely to ... further emboldened or genes are going to try to take back even more ... now he ... has lived this long and deep links with the sun and so we seen some and how we can to see more of the Hezbollah offline tingle with the Asad regime intends to be ... against the rebels ... but not get the picture to get the overall work at the time period ... but so far ... and now it's become almost impossible to deny it we have from ... top to toe in the country you can hear the word and and the other appropriate that the ruling which are above the stronghold ... basically shut down for the ... country the strains of Hezbollah fighters ... coming now entered a live report that lead to death then ... only killed in the battle and I'm ... it showed how dramatically the Syrian war has changed you know from protests for nearly ... two thousand and eleven to an end to their gimpy and not really a property work toward the front end ... under eighteen and and you don't have it begin to Apple blow ... drying in the third of the thing the militant further into their cars ... replace Leno on insulin and eleven ... aam and this is the mood some as the move came as no people worried that this was spills over from the Syrian border why didn't some of the ... legal sense ... I think a party filled over him anyway the outcrop where they're showing at the end chair I ... tried it to the inherent Levanon because of the war ... I think there definitely very can hear that kind of battle where you not to be believed are dying in that that ... that is only going to make things work ... will have to leave it that thank you Brian much know my last coming to us from Beirut Lebanon we appreciate the time ... you ... it's time for a quick look at the markets now ... Madonna and industrial average sea soaring through the day down about twenty points about a tenth of what this end the tech heavy Nasdaq family change that ... plus the free points down and some live with a BS from the five hundred ... of all the control the sea star in the White House the IRS mass provides the biggest opportunity full lasting damage that's what Jerry sign says Neil tells all about it ... after the break ... what about the new stuff there at the beest live I'm Simon Constable ... of older control the seasons noting that the White House and the IRS mass provides the biggest opportunity for lasting damage that's what the will Street dolls Joe resigned says an e joins us now from Washington DC Dricks plan of self ... areas thank you Brian much Jerry ... you're happy be with you ... so the great column as always for rebate masses ... but this one the was ... right you get it right back there right now ... they seem to come in threes for whatever reason you got that the revival of the bin gauzy ... guy controversy the questions about the attack ... on the U S diplomatic outpost in big Ozzie Libya ... you've got the Ira scandal which were talking about here ... and AOL's got the question of the Justice Department's subpoena ING secretly the records of about twenty phone lines for the Associated Press ... in search of a weaker those are all controversies that can develop the White House over the last week to ten days ... um I guess the point I'm a few years I think that the one that has the greatest potential to damage the Obama agenda in the long run ... is I think the IRS scandal because it coming goes to the underpinnings ... of Obama governance which is the notion that the advance into thousandeight that ... government could be activist could be trusted to fix problems in a smart way ... in a non ideological way out things like you know the the bailout of the banks the the stimulus of the economy saving GM that the government was capable of doing things ... and not being carried away as it did those things ... that's the idea that I think is call into question by the IRS ... and of course a death by close of the way you put facts into the great dragon was our government is the solution it's the problem ... well yet it look there plenty of people in a polarized country where views of how big a now acting as the government should be ... are the great divide between blue and red there plenty of people who were inclined to think ... governments the problem anyway ... this gives those people some additional ammunition for what they are ready to leave ... I they may Seeks crates and doubt sow some seeds of doubt in the minds of other people ... who would like to see government do some things well effectively to help them in their lives but ... you know in the back of mind to say are they capable they are well laid Massive App somehow ... I think the more particular from Simon is that one of things the IRS the agency is really in the crosshairs year was supposed to do over the next couple years which play a big role in implementing of the Affordable Care Act that people call Obamacare ... a lot of the provisions of that Act ... to require the IRS to either um oversee the system of tax credits ... in the tax penalties that are put in place to help people or require people ... to get health insurance so that is almost universal coverage ... that's a big test for the IRS ... now people are asking questions about the IRS is capabilities and and that that that some of those questions of becoming a more humble pointed from from what I've but some people sign will maybe we should have a scrappy HIRAs and and and just of a flat tax to make a very simple so you need ... tax collectors and in the sunlight designs and Optus being like that ... you know political Trends Wall path of the next three years ... well we'll see I I think they're one of the things on about the next three years to one of the things that could happen here is ... that we dissolved into a political trench warfare to use your description ... of early half now so that everything is focused on the twenty fourteen congressional actions you know ... Congress is a little paralyzed is not a ... clear Democratic or Republican majority that's what control which in the house the Senate ... to some extent both sides are waiting for that for the fever to break so that somebody is in charge ... and that can happen before twenty fourteen ... one of the dangers of the for the White House is that this becomes ... just a kind of a another political mud wrestling match that takes away ... attention from the rest the Obama agenda ... and that things such is ... the expanded preschool for children or more stimulus measures are more infrastructure that measures or even maybe immigrant reform ... get put on the side tracked ... can still be very interesting for us and for us thank you Brian much Jerry side we appreciate it I'm sure Simon ... I recommend everybody reads Jerry's column on the vs day don't come ... doesn't sleep in pinging work on his mapping Basso will tell you ... after the break ... it's ... what about the new supper dovish a live I'm Simon Constable to sleep Bing's walk walk on maps that stuff ... Heidi Mitchell joins us now on the site to explain thanks Ming and I think that I'm on the new supper will ... be appreciated ... aam ... first impression of the model and taken out but I love maps let's all with the sleeping what constitutes we've been doing ... so in the way people in MIT Friday we work really hard we need to get some extra stuff done to tent and told him whatever next thing you can call them indexing it now ... we've lost the luster three three weeks on Saturday morning well mention one to sleep in a catch up on this hours ... and said ... in a new action thriller kneecap or maybe a couple days than I would share with the event horizon you might ... think there's a knife to make up Saturday morning couple of hours but the problem is that he sleep too much on the weekends ... or anytime you Oversight you think your circadian rhythms are affected by the Canadian revenues do like that that's pretty ... nice ... delight to use the phone to use your bodies for something that this morning but you miss them ... so ... it's like you have to ... say and ... also missed a meal right and ... yellow and have a snack and then go back to ... sleep eating and FX ever good idea but I've but that the point that you're on your beat the monster walking around in this font of the St Times on the weekends ... and ... so doctors have found that ad ... the little map that the little skinny now is the better way to go and align your math science ... from twenty thirteen and it's it's hard to calculate the good times but so what one of the things that come ... until the spotlight she mentioned the light if you if you wake up early and that I mean you get out into some might even if we ever see someone again here in New York ... column then Ben helps me set you bought the site good thing to do if you tie it ... set up cost cutting the line in this online ... and then have a nap in the afternoon note of the body really likes her teens and even if you're not that kind of person it's the DPP to get up normally and six and it is good to just get up at six am and take that twenty five minute lap Libor me later don't go into a friend sleep thusly one dollar copper something CEO Paul into DTC because you just have this thing out later in week out and ... you're completely disorientated and maybe not functioning at the highest level now that ... RIM's sleep is what you wish to be just the journey Fidelity Tom I start training and you'll often see or cuts which have ever to read sleep but pointed ... to the other ... along on the stove itself going in summer because ... you know you twenty minutes to get back in line and he kept an appointment and he teases you ... can stop switching and have not laid out some useful but the money really ... is a well yes I ... know nothing beats twenty minutes to outline his goal is to think that they can't back to the routine thing if you do it didn't the doctor next that I interviewed news since this is the little things in this office with a black counterfeiting and disputes with one thirty two two o five he takes his nap thing it definitely doesn't yet but it's just funny so the suspect seen ... it anticipates its Lincoln actually I mean if it doesn't work the body sink into deep sleep ... he wakes up feeling refreshed and like he's had a little bit of a break but not because bodies completely shut down the pastor read it again ... now's the time and research out of this is nothing in the office is probably a good thing but employers sometimes the Radisson IRA last summer ... I don't know what to be listed in choosing to compete fiercely so if you had something of bands coming up liking against after twenty four hours and you can sleep eat the green etc for ten hours ... a new baby will be so the sapling nice and I still looks ... like Heidi Mitchell baking entity that we appreciate your time you read more on that ... on the vs day don't come tomorrow ... do you take your Madsen as directed ... if not some startup companies on developing some new technologies to help deal ... with the story ten headed joins us from sentences so to explain send thank you Brian much for being map ... Simon thank you ... so ... what why why does possible to forget the technology was anyone care fiance to Madsen has prescribed to combat Sioux Falls ... well everyone's got that family member that needs to stay on their meds right Simon ... actually almost no people there on pretty serious medication regimens and ... in a lot of cases going off of those can ... cause a lot of health problems as well as out ... when needed expense to the health care system ... this story were coming out with his out told can afford a few of them large hospitals in large health insurers ... other people involved in health care delivery ... all of whom need to tighten up shop right now ... and eliminate waste in the system ... I'm partly because of federal health care reforms and partly because this is the large and unwieldy system ... medication adherence is one of the issues It's been identified ... as something that really needs to be improved there's a group out there called the ... New England Health Institute says that ... people going off of their medication Kearns ... accounts for something like two hundred and ninety billion dollars a year in ... wasted out at recently in health and says that in some spots upset about something called digital sales and social games that are offering ... incentives if you like always be that I commence on time tell us about those quickly ... there are a range of startup companies out there trying to use technology to come up with more cost effective ways ... to get ... the medication I'm used properly of ... people do everything they can to get ... patients to take medicines only as directed at the end the day it's up to the patient to do it or not ... so there are a range of technologies that are being developed by a startup companies that I'm there are ... sensors to go inside each and every bill ... which would ... tell you objectively whether some mistaken or medicine or not ... there are I analytics programs to look at ... who is most at risk from going off their schedule ... and then try to better target those people for ... interventions that might help them stay on ... and there are other companies ... like this I Mango Health which was founded by ... the founders of the T Mobile has been ... funded by law to that same crowd of people entrepreneurs and investors in the social gaming area that wants to offer things like ... Target gift cards and I'm a charitable donation in your name ... in exchange for staying on your ... routine ... and and and they can presumably these will be of available to people who need this when when will let me ... one company working on these sensors ... produce digital health ... they're working with Novartis and they're working with our super Pharmaceuticals which ... I've committed does a lot of pretty well known ... mental health medications ... and fro is digital ... tells me that within ... the next year to two years the first digital sales ... will be on the market unease with the regular pills ... but with a tiny sensor inside about the size of a grain of sand ... made of copper and magnesium ... which I is easily digestible by the body in which can send a signal to another device that can ... then tell a doctor ... or concerned loved one that this person ... is or isn't taking their medicine as this post ... you I'd I do like this this this on others but I do worry about eating something digital eleven EU satisfy adjustable isn't in Hawaii about that ... the CEO of this company told me that these senses are made of magnesium copper and silicon ... magnesium and copper are two of the minerals you actually need every day ... and the sensors going into these pills are so small that ... the Falwell underneath the recommended daily allowance for copper nineties ... so it's just fine Simon who has played centerfield Hills has won ... the fight ... that sounds great on the thank you very much ... present times and had a ... compound sentences go ... many can read mall on lands was